It certainly has been cold in the beautiful desert southwest. You worst than us in the city....here's it's all the reflective concrete and asphalt...uh huh. But our everything froze here, including our attitudes. Glad Wynonna had a warm and cosy to snuggle into. Super glad we're getting a warm up.

Our pig, Bud, had a piece of carpet remnant over his door. He would move it in and out of place to adjust the temperature. Of course, he also got old comforters and sleeping bags, which he shredded over time. Eventually we would remove the rags and the old straw and start over.

I had wondered how you were handling the water in the cold. What a workout.It's fun to see Wynonna smiling/ cussing from her palace. You wouldn't know now that she didn't really like it at first.Sun and 40's sounds good.

We have a frost free hydrant also, which froze repeatedly last winter. Turns out that if the drain hole at the bottom gets plugged with sand your hydrant does not drain and then it freezes. We dug ours out and replaced it with a new one (we ruined the old one with a torch) but then we added extra protection by cutting a piece of hard plastic to go around the pipe and make a platform. Then we added about 12" of rock before filling back in with dirt. Works great!